Clothes-line clamp.



M. BREMSY.

CLOTHES LINE CLAMP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY so, 1909.

Patented Aug. 19, 1913.

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MAX BREMSY, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-LIN E CLAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 19,1913.

Application filed July 30, 1909. Serial No. 510,466.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX BnEMsY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Clamps, of which the following is a specification.

Pieces of wood of approximately cylindrical shape and having an axial slit for a greater part of its length have long been used for the purpose of securing garments to a line, and when carefully and properly applied, and when the garment and line are not subjected to violent disturbance, either from wind or any other source these wooden clothes pins, so called perform the duties and functions of a securing means very successfully.

My device is placed upon the line and remains there permanently in greater or less numbers and is always ready for use. It is made of metal and is so proportioned as to clamp the line and at the same time clamp securely to the line the garment which it is called upon to hold. If the location of the clamp is not proper for the width of the garment, the clamp can be readily adjusted by being slid along the line to the desired place, When this is reached, the handle is depressed which turns the cam into the pro-per position for securely retaining the garment and the line in close and permanent relation to each other.

The following is what I consider the best means of carrying out this invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure l is a side elevation showing a short sect-ion of a clothes line and one method of carrying out my invention as applied thereto. Fig. 1 is a sectional view corresponding to Fig. 1, the section being taken on the line 11 in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.

Referring to Fig. 1, A indicates a short section of a clothes line, it may be in all respects the ordinary commonly used line both as to size and as to material used, made of either hemp, cotton, sisal or any appropriate fiber. In stretching the line and securing it for use the first end is knotted about a convenient hook which is secured to some firm fastened a number of my clamps are strung upon the line by having one end of the line pass through the barrel B. The drum or barrel B is cylindrical and is constructed of a fiat sheet of metal which has been properly stamped out and pierced. It is rolled about a mandrel to produce the cylinder and is of suflicient width, while fiat, to continue more than once around the mandrel. The remaining width, after the circle is made complete is lapped over the part already rolled thus producing a cylinder having a wall of a single thickness on one side and of double thickness for strength on the side opposite. Before rolling the flattened sheet into the cylinder B, lugs C, G are bent upward from the sheet and now after rolling, these lugs are adjusted to stand at right angles to the axial line of the cylinder. Holes are produced one in each of the lugs C at equal distances from the drum B for a purpose that shall appear later. A roller D which may be solid, and which has a pin E firmly driven one in each end at a point between the center and the periphery forms an efficient cam. This cam is mounted between the lugs C, C, and the pins E, E, are passed through the holes in the lugs C and are rotatable therein. A handle G which I have shown as formed of an arched piece of wire is secured into the cam D for the purpose of providing a convenient means for imparting to the cam the necessary partly rotary motion required to cause the cam to exert a pinching force upon the rope which passes through the drum B and upon any material or garment which it may be desirable to secure thereon.

In producing the lugs C, I out two parallel slits in one side of the drum for nearly its full length, and the strip of metal between the slits I cut into two parts at its mid-length. The two parts thus formed I bend sharply outward thus forming the lugs. A slot 6 is produced by the formation of the lugs C and this slot being directly under the cam D when my device is completed, makes it possible for the cam to perform the double function to which I attach so much importance. When a garment or portion thereof is placed beneath the cam and the handle of the cam is depressed, the cam not only holds the garment securely but also by forcing the garment down upon the rope and by forcing the rope down upon the lower inside of the drum obviates the possibility of my device slipping along or twisting upon the line.

From the description the mode of operat- H ing my device is obyious. I

Modifications may be made Within the scope of the appended claim Without de= parting from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of this invention.

Having carefully and fully described my invention What I claim and desire to' secure by Letters Patent is:

In a clamp for securing clothes to a line or analogous uses, the combination with a clothes line of a cylinder thereon having a longitudinal slot, lugs formed integral with said cylinder and arranged one at each end of said slot, an eccentric cam arranged longi- 15 tudinally over said slot and supported by said lugs and a handle carried by said cam for forcing said cam into said slot and upon the line While limiting the rotation of said cam as herein specified.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York this 26th day of July A. D. 1909.

MAX BREM'SY.

Witnesses F. A. OHICKERING, ARTHUR? PHELPs-MARR'.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents? Washington, D. G. 

